Polar exploration

The geologist and explorer Douglas Mawson led the Australasian Antarctic Expedition from 1911 to 1914. Comprising 31 men, including photographer Frank Hurley, it charted large segments of the east Antarctic coastline, and investigated sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island and the Southern Ocean. The party arrived at Commonwealth Bay in March 1912. Mawson lost two men – Belgrave Ninnis and Xavier Mertz – on an expedition to map part of the coastline, but survived an epic return journey alone to the…

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It's 100 years since the great Antarctic explorer set out on his last voyage to the White Continent.

In February of 2018, three Latvian geologists – Kristaps Lamers, Maris Krievans and Janis Karuss – went to the Antarctic in a historic expedition.Antarctica contains the largest modern-day ice shields that hold most of the world’s freshwater.The exped…

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The rare collection include this photo of the Dr Edward Wilson sketching on Beardmore Glacier during the fatal expedition to the South Pole.

Newly-digitised images reveal previously unseen details of one of the greatest ever photographic records of human survival. Today, four more images can be revealed.

One hundred years ago, as Robert Falcon Scott and his team fatefully hauled their sledges towards the South Pole, an Australian and New Zealand expedition under the leadership of Douglas Mawson set sail for Antarctica to commence the most ambitious exploration of the icy continent yet undertaken. It was a journey from which two men would not return, and from which Mawson himself would barely escape with his life.